Announcement on Thursday 6th December at 14.00

Following a thorough peer review process, and meeting of the Award Review Panel on November 14th, the Society is delighted to confirm funding of up to £10,000 for each of the following six research proposals received from SRHE members:

Research Awards 2018

Understanding Aspiration and Education towards Diversion and Desistance from Offending: The Role of Higher Education in Walesby Debbie Jones & Mark Jones, Swansea University

The ‘3-D University’? How do organisational culture, social composition, and geography mediate the Student Experience?by Richard Budd, Liverpool Hope University

Local Higher Education in a global marketplace: Everyday mobility and local capital in island Higher Educationby Holly Henderson & Ann-Marie Bathmaker, University of Birmingham

Participation in paid, unpaid and 'hidden' internships at six months after graduation: Are some graduates excluded?by William Hunt, University of Warwick..

A determination of how African academics understand and maximise the existing and potential role of indigenous knowledge and practices within their community-based research: Profiling the ecologically minded university and its contribution to sustainable developmentby Marcellus Mbah, Nottingham Trent University & Ane Turner Johnson, Rowan University

White working class young men’s engagement with higher education: Accessing voices of the ‘hard to reach’ and (frequently) ‘left behind’by Richard Waller, University of the West of England.

Three awards of £5,000 for the separate Scoping Award scheme, open to both members and non-members, were also made as follows:

Scoping Awards 2018

Students’ sense of belonging in higher education: the impacts of social class, locality and institutional habitusby Mi Young Ahn, Bangor University

The use of computer meditated technology to support students’ mental health and wellbeing in Higher Education settingsby Terry Hanley, University of Manchester

A scoping review to investigate the models and measures of learning outcomes used in research on professional skills development in technology-enhanced simulations-based medical educationby Riikka Hofmann, University of Cambridge

As the funding available to support research and scoping projects is strictly limited, we would like to thank the many Society members and Scoping Award entrants for the time and care taken in putting together so many fascinating proposals.

We have provided constructive, individual feedback to all entrants whose proposals we were unable to fund, which will hopefully help refine these proposals and potentially find alternative sources of funding.

Announcement on Wednesday 6th December at 20.15

The Society received its highest ever number of proposals this year, with many excellent and well-designed potential research projects. Following a thorough peer review process, and meeting of the Award Review Panel on November 14th, the Society is delighted to confirm funding of up to £10,000 for each of the following six research proposals received from SRHE members:

Research Awards 2017

How connected are students to campus technologies and official learning spaces? A study of digital literacy and writing in Higher Educationby Ibrar Bhatt, Queen’s University, Belfast

Implementing Inclusive Teaching and Learning in UK Higher Education – utilising Universal Design for Learning (UDL) as a Route to Excellenceby Nicola Martin, London South Bank University

‘Care-free at the top’? Exploring the experiences of senior academic staff who are caregiversby Marie-Pierre Moreau, University of Roehampton.

Exploring the complexity of universities’ knowledge exchange activities: Looking beyond currently measured outcomesby Abhijit Sengupta, University of Essex & Federica Rossi, Birkbeck, University of London

Three awards of £5,000 for the separate Scoping Award scheme, open to both members and non-members, were also made as follows:

Scoping Awards 2017

Graduate Resilience: A review of the literature and future research agendaby Ciaran Burke, Ulster University & Tracy Scurry, Newcastle University

Marketing ‘development studies’ in HEIs: A critical exploration of representations and their effect on student imaginations of ‘development’by Kamna Patel, University College London

“Why not me?” – The Extent to which Students’ Academic Identity impacts their sense of community and mental healthby Yvonne Skipper & Michael Fay, Keele University

As the funding available to support research and scoping projects is strictly limited, we would like to thank the many Society members and Scoping Award entrants for the time and care taken in putting together so many fascinating proposals.

We have provided constructive, individual feedback to all entrants whose proposals we were unable to fund, which will hopefully help refine these proposals and potentially find alternative sources of funding.

Announcement on Thursday 8 December 2016 at 1400

Developing entrepreneurial capabilities for the global labour market: A cross national study of IT students in the UK and Australiaby Margaret Hamilton, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia, Cate Gribble also RMIT, and Sally Smith, Edinburgh Napier University.

Migrant Academics and Professional Learning Gains: Perspectives of the Native Academicsby Ian Kinchin, University of Surrey, Namrata Rao, Liverpool Hope University, and Anesa Hosein, University of Surrey.

Supervision of professional doctoral students: investigating pedagogy for supporting critical voice and theorisationby Nick Pratt, Plymouth University and Julie Shaughnessy, University of Roehampton.

How are cultures of feedback practice shaped by accountability and quality assurance agendas?by Naomi Winstone, University of Surrey.

Scoping Awards 2016

Students' emotional response to feedback on their progress using learning analytics dashboardsby Liz Bennet, University of Huddersfield

The pedagogy of social science research methods textbooks: a scoping studyby Sarah Lewthwaite, University of Southampton

Exploring brokerage activities between Life Science research and teaching communities in UK Higher Education Institutionsby Anne Tierney, Edinburgh Napier University

Educational Justice for All? How UK Universities Are Rethinking Educational Equality and Justice in the Context of Higher Education InternationalisationDr. Stuart Tannock (UCL Institute of Education, University College London)

and the following three proposals were 2015 Scoping Award winners (£5,000 each)

Social Participation in Wales at Age 50: a comparison of ‘elite HE system’ graduates’ and non-graduates’ engagement in civil societyDr. Ceryn Evans (Cardiff University)

The origins and history of university professors and professorship in the UKProfessor Linda Evans (University of Leeds)

Exploring the Paradigms of Higher Education Research: Emerging Research Discourses in China and the UKDr. Ourania Filippakou (University of Hull)
Professor Catherine Montgomery (University of Hull)

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